Posted on 01/01/2006 1:07:06 AM PST by SmithL
Condemned murderer Clarence Ray Allen will not have a public hearing on his clemency petition, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office announced Friday.
The governor's legal affairs secretary, Andrea Lynn Hoch, informed all parties in a letter released Friday that Schwarzenegger "has decided not to refer the clemency matter of Clarence Allen to the Board of Parole Hearings at this time."
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Time to pay the piper.
He was sentenced to life in prison for commissioning the murder of his son's girlfriend in 1974. Then, in 1980, he was convicted to death for ordering the murders of three witnesses of the first murder from his cell.
Allen is severely disabled: he is deaf, blind, uses a wheelchair, and has an advanced case of diabetes. He also suffered a heart attack on September 2, 2005. His lawyers declared that "he presents absolutely no danger at this point, as incapacitated as he is. There's no legitimate state purpose served by executing him. It would be gratuitous punishment." They argued that his execution would constitute cruel and unusual punishment and requested that he be granted clemency by California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
At the time of the Fran’s Market murders, Allen already was serving a life sentence in Folsom Prison for orchestrating the 1974 murder of Mary Sue Kitts. Bryan Schletewitz testified against Allen at the Kitts murder trial. While in Folsom Prison, Allen conspired with fellow inmate Billy Ray Hamilton to murder witnesses who had testified against him, including Schletewitz. When Hamilton was paroled from Folsom Prison, he went to Fran’s Market where Schletewitz worked. He murdered Schletewitz and fellow employees Rocha and White with a sawed-off shotgun and wounded two other people, Joe Rios and Jack Abbott. When Hamilton was arrested five days later he carried a “hit list” with the names and addresses of witnesses who testified against Allen at the Kitts trial, including Bryan Schletewitz.
In 1981, the Attorney General filed charges against Allen and prosecuted the trial in Glenn County due to a change of venue. The trial lasted 23 days, and 58 witnesses were called to testify. Ultimately, the jury convicted Allen of triple murder and conspiracy to murder eight witnesses.
As special circumstances making Allen eligible for the death penalty, the jury also found that Allen had previously been convicted of murder, had committed multiple murder, and had murdered witnesses in retaliation for their prior testimony and to prevent future testimony. During a seven-day penalty phase, the Attorney General introduced evidence of Allen’s career orchestrating violent robberies in the Central Valley, including 10 violent crimes and six prior felony convictions. The jury returned a unanimous verdict of death, and the Glenn County Superior Court sentenced Allen on November 22, 1982.
In 1987, the California Supreme Court affirmed Allen’s death sentence. Associate Justice Joseph Grodin’s opinion referred to Allen’s crimes as “sordid events” with an “extraordinarily massive amount” of aggravating evidence. Earlier this year, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal denied rehearing in Allen’s case. In her opinion for the panel, Judge Wardlaw concluded:
“Evidence of Allen's guilt is overwhelming. Given the nature of his crimes, sentencing him to another life term would achieve none of the traditional purposes underlying punishment. Allen continues to pose a threat to society, indeed to those very persons who testified against him in the Fran's Market triple-murder trial here at issue, and has proven that he is beyond rehabilitation. He has shown himself more than capable of arranging murders from behind bars. If the death penalty is to serve any purpose at all, it is to prevent the very sort of murderous conduct for which Allen was convicted.”
What was his motive for killing his son's girlfriend? That just seems an odd thing to do.
Oil up the wheels of the TOOKIE EXPRESS!
I read this and see how bad off this guy is. and I think of Bin Laden a couple of years ago when they claimed his kidneys were failing and he was on deaths door. well that door never opened and he is still around.
Roll this sorry POS in and shove that needle in deep, he worked hard to get it and he deserves it.
..a needle is too kind, for this POS...string 'em up...let the buzzards/crows feed.
thanks, for the "background". :)
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